Phoui Sananikone

Phoui Sananikone (6 September 1903-4 December 1983) was Prime Minister of Laos from 24 February 1950 to 15 October 1951 (succeeding Boun Oum and preceding Sisavang Vatthana) and from 17 August 1958 to 31 September 1959 (succeeding Souvanna Phouma and preceding Sounthone Pathammavong).

Biography
Phoui Sananikone was born in Laos to a powerful aristocratic family, and he served as Prime Minister of Laos from 1950 to 1951 and from 1958 to 1959. As a politician with American sympathies, he shifted Lao policy to the right, dissolved the National Assembly, and denounced the 1954 Geneva Agreement. He also sought to purge former Pathet Lao fighters from the Royal Lao Army, but he resigned under right-wing military pressure and handed over all power to RLA general Phoumi Nosavan. He served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 1960 to 1974, and he died in exile in Paris, France in 1983.